{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
{{Speciesbox | name = Green-celled cattleheart | image = Parides Childrenae.JPG | image_caption = Male | status = | status_system = IUCN2.3 | taxon = Parides childrenae | authority = Gray, 1832 <ref>Gray, R. G., 1832. In Griffith, E. ''The Animal Kingdom Arranged In Conformity With Its Organization, By The Baron Cuvier'' 14: 140 pls; 15: pp 1–796.</ref> | synonyms = }} '''''Parides childrenae''''', the '''green-celled cattleheart''', is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae.<ref name=jg>Jeffrey Glassberg (2007). ''A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America.'' Sunstreak Books Inc. {{ISBN|978-1-4243-0915-3}}</ref> It is found in southern North America and northern South America.
==Description== The upperside of the wings is black. The male has a bright green patch and a small pale yellow subapical spot on the forewing. There is a red patch on the hindwing. The female has a small white patch on the trailing edge of the forewing and a few pale subapical spots. There is a band of red spots across the hindwing. The underside of the wings is also black. The male has small pale subapical spots on the forewing and a few red spots on the hindwing. The female's underside is the same as the upper side.<ref name=jg/>
==Description from Seitz==
{{Lepidopteran glossary hatnote}} P. childrenae. The green area of the male is larger than in ''P. sesostris'', covering also a part of the cell. The female has a transverse row of spots before the apex of the forewing, as well as two spots on the disc posteriorly. Distributed from Guatemala to Ecuador in two subspecies. — ''childrenae'' ' Gray (3 a) is the Central American form, which is found from Guatemala to Panama. Forewing of the male with a white spot before the apex. Band on the hindwing of the female bright red. — ''oedippus'' Luc. has in the male no white spot before the apex of the forewing, or only a very small one. In the female the band on the hindwing is a somewhat yellowish red on the inner side. Colombia and Ecuador.<ref> Jordan, K., in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . ''The Macrolepidoptera of the World''. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45. {{PD-notice}}</ref>
<gallery> File:Macrolepidoptera15seit 0015.jpg|Seitz File:GrayAnimal Kingdom 1nsecta 1832Childrenae.jpg |Original description </gallery>
==Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)==
A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906)<ref>Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906). A revision of the American Papilios. ''Novitates Zoologicae'' 13: 411-752. (Facsimile edition ed. P.H. Arnaud, 1967) and [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/21926#page/425/mode/1up online]</ref>
==Taxonomy== ''Parides childrenae'' is a member of the ''sesostris'' species group<ref>Edwin Möhn, 2007 ''Butterflies of the World'', Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. ''Parides'' Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers {{ISBN|9783937783277}} </ref>
The members are *''Parides childrenae'' *''Parides sesostris''
==Etymology== The name honours Mrs Children
==References== {{Reflist}} *Lewis, H.L. (1974). ''Butterflies of the World'' {{ISBN|0-245-52097-X}} Page 26, figure 4
==External links== {{commons category|Parides childrenae}} {{Wikispecies|Parides childrenae}} * [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/papilionidae/papilioninae/parides/index.html#childrenae ''Parides childrenae'' at funet.fi]
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childrenae Category:Lepidoptera of Mexico Category:Butterflies of Central America Category:Swallowtail butterflies of South America Category:Taxa named by George Robert Gray Category:Butterflies described in 1832 Category:Lepidoptera of Venezuela Category:Lepidoptera of Colombia Category:Lepidoptera of Costa Rica Category:Lepidoptera of Panama {{papilionidae-stub}}